Download here . Remember that this is a CTP and isn’t meant for production environments; please install in a test environment with no earlier versions of Visual Studio installed. Eric Battalio says: Here are some resources which may be useful as you try...

Matt Sandy dishes on DirectX 12. It’s gonna rock. DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D is one of the most critical pieces of a game or game engine, and we’ve redesigned it...

Thomas Petchel knocked this out in his spare time: While working on the Hilo C++ project, I really wanted to further explore the intersection among C++, DirectX, and XAML in the context of a Windows Store app. A 3D weather app seemed novel (I've never...

Longtime readers know that I have great enthusiasm for the Kinect sensor as a revolutionary NUI technology. Now I can report that I was accepted to the Developer Preview program, and my new Kinect for Windows sensor arrived today. The packaging goes out...

Get them here . Are you creating a game for the Windows Store? If you’re looking for high-performance, you’ll need to code it in C++ and DirectX. These project templates give you a big head start: The Windows Developer Content DirectX game learning template...

Sanjeev Dwivedi posts the details: Today, we are excited to announce that on Windows Store apps and Windows Phone 8 apps , you can easily integrate Facebook Login. Facebook Login lets users sign in to Facebook only one time across multiple devices. If...

If you have an app in the Windows Store already, and you used the Split App (XAML) template as the basis of your app, you’ll notice that the VS2013 compiler complains when you retarget the project to Windows 8.1 and build it: Warning: 'Windows.ApplicationModel...

Closed now, but still some interesting stuff in here: Hello everyone! We’re a group of engineers from the Windows team at Microsoft. Our focus areas included user experiences, the app platform, Internet Explorer and more. We are here from 10:30 to noon...

With today’s announcement of Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 availability , the Windows Store is now open for submitting apps targeting Windows 8.1. Here’s more from the Windows App Builder blog: For those of you who started working on your app...

Eric Schmidt has the lowdown on navigating your Windows Store apps using JavaScript to the release build of Windows 8.1 (available on October 18th). He gives us a detailed walkthrough for: Syncing versions of Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS), Visual...

Pre-order here: www.surface.com/pre-order . It's no secret that I love my Surface Pro, so the Surface Pro 2 has me all twitterpated. The dock station is particularly exciting, but I admit that the new magnesium color is winning my heart. Panos Panay...

I’m very enthusiastic about this project. If it reaches the $1.5 million stretch goal in the next 34 hours, Emotiv’s new Insight neuroheadset will get a 3-axis magnetometer to detect absolute direction, which makes the 6-axis accelerometer (from the ...

Longtime readers know that I’ve been a big supporter of Emotiv’s EPOC neuroheadset from the beginning. Now Emotiv has designed a new device that promises to be much more usable in physically active situations. It’s the Insight, and Emotiv has a worthy...

Previously: Notes on porting to DirectX 11.1 from earlier versions A lot changed between DX11 and DX11.1, and texture processing is a big part of the delta. As you may know, the D3DX utility library is gone, replaced by external shared source libraries...

Yours truly has moved to a new team in the Windows Developer Content org, so now I focus on DirectX and game development. Long-time readers know of my interest in computational methods for mathematical physics, so this is a great opportunity for porting...

Olivier Bloch brings the good news: MS Open Tech has been working with many open source technologies to help Web and C++ developers extend their reach and have their code work seamlessly on Windows devices. You can now integrate your code using Cocos2DX...

In case you weren't able to attend Build 2013 last week (like me), Jake Sabulsky wraps it up for us : Day 1 Keynote On Wednesday Steve Ballmer kicked off the conference with the Day 1 keynote . He was joined by Julie Larson-Green and Antoine Leblond,...

One of the projects that your truly has been working on this year is a series of quick video overviews on programming various features in your Windows Store apps. Currently, eight are posted, with many more on the way. Comparing Eclipse to Visual Studio...

Kraig Brockschmidt has a nice intro to the async model for Windows Store apps, focusing on JavaScript: All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript) . Here’s the kind of code you’ll be writing: var promise1 = someOperationAsync();...